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I'm just wondering if something broke recently with NFS?

I just re-installed Mageia 1 after testing other distributions and am having problems. The wizard will create the NFS shares that I usually have but the other computers on the local network will not see them and checking for shares on the local network gets me nothing.
NFS file sharing does work between the other linux machines on the same local network so I doubt it's the router but anything is possible.

The other machines are running Mageia Cauldron and Mandriva 2008.1.

Do you have the portreserve service running? I recall having a similar problem with NFS not working until portreserve was started manually.

Of course the other obvious source of the problem is the firewall.

Ken-Bergen wrote:I'm just wondering if something broke recently with NFS?

The broken NFS detection and mount is a
years old bug carried over from Mandriva.
This bug goes back years.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63416

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207

I've gotten so used to manually editing

/etc/fstab

that it's become second nature. I can remember
manually editing /etc/fstab all the way back
to Mandy 2010 and beyond.

My NFS server is a Mandy 2010.2 box and my
Mageia 1 64-bit video editing platform
picks up the NFS directory on that 2010.2
box just fine, but only after I edit the
/etc/fstab file on the Mageia box.

This is embarrassing as it was the firewall.

I've done many installs and always set a static ip address and turn off the firewall in the summary screen. I don't know if I forgot the firewall this time or if it's a bug in the installer. The next install I do will tell the tale and I'll report it if it's a bug.

By the way wilcal, I do know about the nfs/fstab bug and the work around but it was a good thought.